Excursion to the institution «State Archives of the Mogilev Region»

As part of the «Archives to School» campaign, students of the educational institution «Mogilev State Sanatorium Boarding School for Children with Scoliosis» visited the institution «State Archive of the Mogilev Region».

In the reading room, the head of the department for the scientific use of documents and information, Olga Trotskaya, and archivist of the 1st qualification category, Alexey Shvyrev, introduced students to the history of archival affairs in the Mogilev region and the peculiarities of the work of archivists. Students were presented with documents on the history of the Great Patriotic War, including materials from the regional commission for assistance in the work of the emergency state commission to investigate and establish the atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices. The information provided allows us to assess the scale of the destructive consequences of military operations and the Nazi occupation regime.

Then the excursion continued to the document digitization laboratory, where students were clearly shown the process of digital processing of documents and the conditions for storing documents in archival storage facilities.